Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: New & looking for shopping cart

Could I ask a small favor... could I get you to install a test instance of (say) openacss-5.5 with pg-8.3 and then try installing the ecommerce package from cvs?

I'm doing the same on a copy of a (5.5. 8.3) instance I've been running over the years.

Reasons I ask are, it will be nice to have that same style of "do this, then do that, then build this" style of installation docs that acs enjoyed; and for the specific case of ecommerce I'm running into a number of issues that may or may not be solvable by someone who might potentially adopt openacs if it enjoyed a killer app as it did when dotlrn aas still alive.

Most likely we'll compare notes when we can get ecommerce installed, to the point the APM is satisfied insofar as dependent packages are concerned, and an instance of ecommerce can be mounted.. If needed before that, let's contact each other on this thread.

-Jim

If you look at ecommerce.info, you'll see a list of what it needs, all but one of which I had to get from cvs; no one maintaining them and keeping them working with latest n greatest I suppose.

In two or three cases, the depended-upon package required things like a later kernel, but I just forced the install, seemed to work fine, data model loaded and everything.

Then installing ecommerce was easy, data model loaded without error, and after restarting I could browse around a little.

I'll be doing more as time goes on, but it seems to work fine so far; I at least get no errors on the pages I visited.

So far so good...

-Jim